, more taxpayer green said to be wasted on another great energy program. nearly $200 million to be exact. plus, higher taxes, more spending cuts, or both. the big debate over how to fix our economy ridges on. the new survey out today from economists. welcome to "the willis report." ♪ gerri: and hello, everyone. it is the battle for the buckeye state, and it is getting expensive. president obama and challenger mitt romney said to campaign in a higher later this week. paul wright and leading the way today trying to rally the troops in an effort to us away the momentum away from the president. jeff flock exclusively sat down with republican vice-presidential nominee. and he joins me now. all right, he did not hold back on his criticism for the presidents, correct? >> reporter: that's right. he is not held back, and there are some republicans who have been somewhat critical of paul ryan's performance, wanted to see a little bit more explanation. the one we are used to with the church, the house budget committee. we have not quite seen that yet. given the fact that here in ohio and ot

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you are a lock in, in the white house, right now the president is in ohio. but energy ceo mitt romne said t romney is the guy what will win ohio. >> obama is destroying the lives and livelihoods of my employees. [ engine revving ] ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just to stay ale... but feel alive. the new c class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz through and through. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. - ♪ america! ♪ america! - ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ - ♪ on thee - ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ - ♪ from sea to shining sea >> they have rejected every effort to reduce the national debt if that effort required even one dollar one dime in additional revenue comes from people making more than 1 million-dollars, that is a fact. neil: joe biden blasting the republican ticket for not taxing the rich, you did not hear about him talking about ghosts. we'll show that you in 10 minutes. but first to energy. energizi

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of our own energy. let's go get that energy and use it and get people back to work. gas, oil, coal all of the above. it is here, it is ours. you know he is going to do -- he is when you say yes to the keystone pipeline so we can get the oil coming to our country. number two, you know, in our state, and our midwestern manufacturing states, we have lost a lot of work. a lot of people in the prime of their lives, they are in between -- delphi is a great example. to get back into a career of the 21st century so that american dreams can be placed back within their reach. we need to fix our schools. we need to honor the parents and the children, and not the special interests standing in the way of the education reforms. we need trade that works for america so we can make more things in america, sell them overseas. but there's one thing that the four of us have talked about, we have worked on. it is a really simple idea. we cannot keep spending money we just do not have. we have got to balance the budget. we have got to get the debt under control. it is our duty to save the american dream

energy even consuming same amount that is much less for the middle east that doesn't come back. finally, i think, small businesses could use a lot of help from the banks. that is banks were more able and ready to lend. and recognizing that the, the banking crisis that we had in 2008 and nine wasn't from lack of regulation but it was failure of regulations we had. melissa: yeah. >> dodd-frank was really more than we needed. sarbanes-oxley was supposed to solve most of those problems. melissa: clint, is there one thing the government could do to help you out right now? >> yeah, just get the hell out of the way. that's all i'm asking. get out of the way. melissa: clint, you're not one to mince words. i think i love you. i mean thank you for coming on. >> i like that. melissa: yeah i do too. thanks, guys. moving on to global issues. more than 120 world leaders are in new york this week for the annual meeting of the u.n. general assembly, including countries that enjoy billions of dollars of aid from the u.s. given horrific events we've seen unfold in the middle east since 9/11 you might thi

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-- it mentions here, one in ohio, listen to this. they have first energy corp plans to idle the coal-fired power plant on the ohio river and this is the samous power plant, a giant plan because soft demand for electricity and competition from gas-fired plants that are cheaper to run and cleaner to operate. so the facts are not in favor ofú governor romney in that commercial and as a matter of fact, if people rely on coal-fired electricity right now, that power is more expensive to produce than the market rate. as a matter of fact, in some cases, could be double than what the market is right now. so governor romney had better check his facts before he runs that commercial across the state. >> jennifer: obviously the energy issue is going to be a big one in terms of jobs. the production tax credit in terms of wind energy. ohio's position and growing that industry enormously. the number one wind energy growth state in the country. romney is against the production tax credit. what do you think of president obama's clean energy policies, including the all of the above strategy with respe

they said is amazing. review 5-hour energy over 73 percent who reviewed 5-hour energy said they would recommend a low calorie energy supplement to their healthy patients who use energy supplements. seventy-three percent. 5-hour energy has four calories and it's used over nine million times a week. is 5-hour energy right for you? ask your doctor. we already asked 3,000. so let's talk about coverage. based on this chart, who would you choose ? wow. you guys take a minute. zon, hands down. i'm going to show you guys another chart. pretty obvious. i don't think color matters. pretty obvious. what'sretty obvious about it ? that verizon has the coverage. verizon. verizon. we're going to go to another chart. it doesn't really matter how you present it. it doesn't matter how you present it. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other networks combined. neil: all right, to read sweepstake polls, things are swinging the president's way, folks believes that more jobs are on the way, for example. what if they are just getting jobs? don't believe me, believe democrat, a very well connected

coal with companies like duke energy saying all because of epa regulations. coal miners union is not endorsing president obama this time around. many say the state of the coal industry will be a big factor in the election. here is the question? is this because of regulation or is the industry shifting to cheaper natural gas. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me back. melissa: as you know i covered the energy industry for a long time and i do think the epa hates coal but i'm not sure if the transition we're seeing now is as a result of that or because natural gas is plentiful and cheap. >> both play a factor, by far the driving force is the epa's war against coal. melissa: how do you know that? >> first of all, president obama before he was elected last election time he said you could use coal but under his cap-and-trade plan utilities would likely go bankrupt. he tried cap-and-trade. that failed. he is using epa after epa. look, from cradle to grave they're trying to bury the coal industry. you can't get a mining permit. in fact, arch coal had a water permit pulled during a

energy department program that backed the bankrupt solyndra. what guaranties americans have that solo won't become another solyndra. great to have you back on the show. what makes me very nervous about this besides solyndra, this company is going out there to make solar panels. they're making the very thin solar panels easier to install and use but we have a production glut of these in the world right now. they're being made very efficiently in asia. as a result the price has declined 30% in the past year and they only expect demand to increase 8% over the next year. so if i were going into a business right now, this is not the business i would choose. what do you think? >> no. it's true. you look over the last three years it is 75% drop in solar, the cost of solar panels. and you mentioned asia. in china right now, suntech power, one of the largest solar manufacture you ares in the world is threatening to be delisted from the new york stock exchange. their stock went from $90 a share in 2008 to dollar a share today. even in asia where done cheaper and more efficiently they're ha

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, nobody is supposed to be doing energy deals with iran, it was not a secret, seven months after mitt romney invested in that company doing business with iran. and then he invested some more with then. then went back a third time and invested more. then it was roughly this time last year when he was well on his way of securing the republican nomination for president of the united states that mr. romney finally sold those shares. he sold his shares the day before he appeared at this republican debate in iowa. i don't know if he thought he would get asked about them or not. now all of this it notes that he's not necessarily personally making the call on these investments. his money is kept in a blind trust. that said the idea you don't have to answer for investments made through a blind trust has been debunked on american politics. i thought this guy's argument was the most convincing on that. >> the blind trust is an age-old rouge to say you can tell the blind trust what it can and can't do. >> those rules include go ahead and invest my mitt romney bucks in the chinese oil company that

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the $39 million in tax credit that went to a north carolina company that makes energy efficient lighting. that is all guy but you realize we it opened an l.e.d. light manufacturing plant in china. what do you make of that? >>guest: it is really unseemly for the president to engage in protectionist rhetoric when you consider that a fourth of our exports from america are associated with the overseas investment of american taxpayers. we also get trillions of foreign investment in the united states that supports millions of jobs. this is something we should be welcoming except, and this is the key, what mitt romney does with his money is his business. what obama does with our money is all of our business. the fact that we squandered billions on a stimulus that didn't work and the tact that some of it went to china, i don't think the fact it went to china is nearly as important as we flushed a trillion dollars down the drain and made our economy worse by making government bigger. >>neil: i have in problem with the multinational nature our company, our country and companies, doing bus

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better and higher wages through my plan an there are a few things like energy policy and making the case for tax reform. he's made it much, much harder for himself than he should have. >> go ahead. >> it's a little hard for mitt romney to talk about what he is going to do on health care when he said he is going to repeal all of the affordable care act then say i'm going to keep some parts of it. so again, it's sort of like dude, exactly what are you trying to do here? i think the difference between george w. bush, he ran as a compassionate conservative and he had his conservative base locked up. romney's dealing with people whobds we're not really trusting you. if you're the obama campaign, what jim messina should do, he should play the video of alec baldwin and glenn ross saying always be closing. the one thing you cannot understand, a poll's a poll. folks have not cast any ballots, so the obama campaign should stay aggressive. stay absolutely aggressive because if you just sit back a little bit, you could cause this race to narrow. that's the last thing they want. >> thanks very m

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down. i also worked on getting the old virgin smell converted into a renewable energy woodchip fired power plant that could involve some interaction on the part of the managing of the company with opportunities that may exist at the state and local level for financing. the relationship between an employer and employees is a very special one and it is not necessarily derived from washington or some program. small employers look round around the community and technical colleges and they look to other places to provide education internal training programs so they can recruit people into their company and they get to deduct those from their taxes. i certainly think it is important to have a level of federal involvement and federal training. the real relationship is not the federal government providing through some sort of a program from washington. but it is a combination of these things, and it involves employers. i am a manufacturer myself. we have gone out to look for people and we work with technical schools and other schools in the area. i will never forget when i got involved

funner. a more fun group of kids to teach. they have so much just native energy and enthusiasm about the world around them. they live in such a media-rich and digitally-rich and experience-rich environment now that it's-- it's made my job in some ways easier because what they bring into the classroom is really complex and interesting and it's my job to kind of harness that energy and that enthusiasm and direct it toward the things that i need them to learn as far as being 21st century communicators and thinkers and problem solvers. >> suarez: you often hear that teachers can tell who's going to have trouble in high school early on. in the earlier grades. do you agree with that? and is there anything else teachers can be doing in those early grades to help those kids out? >> i think what-- the best teachers are are seekers. we are given a family's child to teach. we're given their most precious resource, their child. and our job is to send them out better than when they walk through the door. and better doesn't necessarily mean that they can ace a standardized test. better means that